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Yeah.. There's no one with clean hands. That being said though, since there's no one without guilt to "cast stones" we should all be able to sit down and discuss things .. Not.

It's a sad thing to think about and realize, but even two calm rational people can still get into a war with each other, let alone when it's muddled by god knows how much history, politics and religious matters.. I'm more interested in the fact that "religious fundies" are on both sides of the Syrian struggle.. (ie. Mujahedeen and Al-Qaeda are fighting Hezbollah and Iran )

The Israeli military has fired a missile into Syria, the first time Israel has been drawn into the fighting in the neighboring country.

The military said it fired the missile as a warning shot on Sunday after a stray mortar from Syria hit a military post in the Golan Heights. Israel captured the Golan from Syria in the 1967 Mideast war and subsequently annexed it.

The military says no damage or injuries were reported inside Israel.

A string of mortar shells have struck the Golan during the Syrian civil war. Israel views the fire as accidental, but nonetheless has warned that it holds Syria responsible.

The rest of the acticle has little to nothing to do with Israel, but focusses on negotioations with new groups in Syria, a Syrian National Coalition. Combining the various rebel factions in order to take out Assad and have one body the other natons can deal with.

"The prospect of British involvement in a no-fly zone to tackle the bloodshed in
Syria comes a year after the end of a similar military mission in Libya that was
estimated to have cost the UK more than £1 billion."

"The Pentagon has told the Obama administration that any military effort to seize
Syria’s stockpiles of chemical weapons would require upward of 75,000 troops,
amid increasing concern that the militant group Hezbollah has set up small
training camps close to some of the chemical weapons depots, according to senior
American officials."

Global hacking network Anonymous said it will shut down Syrian government websites around the world in response to a countrywide Internet blackout believed to be aimed at silencing the opposition to President Bashar al-Assad

"Engineers working for the Assad regime in Syria have begun combining the two
chemical precursors needed to weaponize sarin gas, an American official with
knowledge of the situation tells Danger Room. International observers are now
more worried than they’ve even been that the Damascus government could use
its nerve agent stockpile to slaughter its own people.

The U.S. doesn’t know why the Syrian military made the move, which began in
the middle of last week and is taking place in central Syria. Nor are they sure why
the Assad government is transferring some weapons to different locations within
the country, as the New York Times reported on Monday.

All that’s certain is that the arms have now been prepped to be used, should
Assad order it.

“Physically, they’ve gotten to the point where the can load it up on a plane and
drop it,” the official adds."

"United Nations forces based inside Syria to monitor a longtime ceasefire
between Syria and Israel will bring in armor to reinforce their security because
of a threat posed by an influx of Syrian rebels, the U.N. peacekeeping chief
said."

"A senior Syrian oppositionist claimed on Tuesday that Egypt’s former chief of
intelligence, who died in mysterious circumstances in July, was actually killed in
the massive Damascus explosion which hit Syria’s security leadership."

"Gunmen loyal to opposite sides in neighboring Syria's civil war battled on
Wednesday in the streets of a northern Lebanese city where two days of
clashes have killed at least six people and wounded more than 50, officials
said."

"Amidst Turkey getting NATO approval to line up Patriot anti-missile systems
on its border and with US officials indicating that the consequence of
President Bashar Al-Assad using chemical weapons will be military intervention,
the USS Eisenhower has arrived off the coast of Syria to send a clear signal
that direct confrontation could be near."

CNN just reported that Syrian military have loaded chemical weapons into warheads.

/thiswillnotendwell

It wasn't much likely to end well from the start...

The real question is, will Russia and China stop to protect Assad if his troops use chemical weapon ? Iran isn't likely to drop him to anything but its support will mean much less if the big supportors stop.

The real question is, will Russia and China stop to protect Assad if his troops use chemical weapon ? Iran isn't likely to drop him to anything but its support will mean much less if the big supportors stop.

If they don't, I hope Russia and China are prepared for a massive penalty in the domain of diplomacy if they carry on supporting Assad after he uses chemical weapons. It's one thing to support someone, but it is stupid to sit there and do nothing when an "ally" is about to do something totally reckless such as this.

I really don't know what Russia is doing in this. At least, they knew where to stop and tell Slobodan Milosevic to eat shit when he went too far with genocide against Albanians in Kosovo.